ESSAY

ON THE

Revelation of Saint John,

So far as concerns the

Paft and Prefent Times.

To which are added two DISSERTATIONS,
The one upon Mark II. 25, 26.The other upon Mat-
thew XXIV.and the PARALLEL CHAPTERS.

WITH A

COLLECTION of SCRIPTURE-
PROPHECIES relating to the Times after the
Coming of the MESSIAH.

By WILLIAM WHISTON M. A. Profeffor of the
Mathematicks in the University of CAMBRIDGE.

Μακάριο ὁ ἀναγινώσκων, και οι ακέοντες τες λόγες τῆς προφητείας, και την
τις πιὸ ἐν αὐτῇ γεγραμμώα· ὁ γὰρ καιρὸς ἐγύς. Αpoc. I. 3.

-Illud pro certo habens, nifi in hifce talibus liberiùs paulò
fentiendi, imò & errandi, venia concedatur, ad prolunda
illa & latentia veritatis adyta viam nunquam patefacium iri.
Med. Comment. Apoc. Pref.

CAMBRIDGE:

Printed at the UNIVERSITY-PRESS; for B. Tooke, at
the Middle-Temple-Gate, Fleet-ftreet, London, MDCCVI.

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cta illa Dei O. M. Oracula nifi cum ipfis mortalitatis exuviis jure ponenda cenfet: Brevia hæcce Vaticiniorum Apocalypticorum, omni Thefauro chariorum, Specimina, juxta methodum Cl. Medi r8 paraeits demonftrativam, pro modulo noftro adornata, in animi perquam grati, fumméque devoti tefferam perennem, atque μνημόσυνον, Qua par eft Reverentiâ, Lubens Meritóque Dat, Dicat, Confecrat, Gulielmus Whifton

Dabam Cantabrigia XVII. Cal. Maj.
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I

I.

AN

ESSAY

ON THE

Revelation of Saint John.

PART I.

HYPOTHESES or OBSERVATIONS.

T

HOSE Prophecies of the Scripture which relate to the Jewish Church are open and explicit, and make use of a Tear for that known space of time fo call'd, without any covert or myftical Signification. Thus 29 the 400 years of the Sojourning and Affliction of Gen. xv. 13. Abraham's Seed: the 70 years of the Captivity of Jer.xxv.11.12. Babylon: the 390 years of the forbearance of Ezek. IV. 4, 5. God to Ifrael: and the 40 years of his forbear- 6. vance to Judah and very many the like durations, are unanimously and certainly expounded of the fame real numbers of years by all Commentators : and the exact completion of them, at the time every where fpecify'd, in that most obvious acceptation, puts the matter beyond dispute with all

men.

II. Those Prophecies of the Scripture which relate to Christianity, the Times of the Meffias, and the

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Church